Hello,
Perhaps you have an open transaction that isn't closing and thus the
pg_xlog continues to grow?
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
Gaetano Mendola wrote:
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> Hi all,
> today I add 4 new columns to a table with 4E+06 rows,
> I also update to an initial value these new columns.
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> The new columns are 3 INTEGER one of type DOUBLE.
> The table have also 5 indexes.
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> Immediately after the operation my partition "data" had
> an usage increment of 1.2GB.
> I did a reindex and a vacuum full on that table and 600MB
> were freed.
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> Now I have an increment of only 600 MB.
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> I use a checkpoint_segments = 16 but in my pg_xlog I have
> 35 files. Why 35 files ?
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> Where are lost my 600MB ?
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> Also the load increased from 1 to 5 !!
> Any ideas ?
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> I'm attaching boot graphs ( HD space usage and load ).
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> Regards
> Gaetano Mendola
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